Nashville emergency support

Nashville floods

In May 2010, Nashville was hit by unprecedented 'thousand year' floods that killed 30 people and wreaked US$1bn of damage affecting almost 11,000 properties.

When the city asked us for emergency support, within 24 hours we had a joint PB/Heery team of 10 professionals on the spot - including architectural and estimating specialists and mechanical, electrical, structural and civil engineers. Another eight joined them the next day, working around the clock to produce reports and cost estimates required by insurers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to let recovery work begin.

We followed-up by assigning project managers to individual departments of the Metropolitan Government to assemble bid packages and oversee reconstruction programmes.

Acknowledging that the team had 'worked endlessly', city officials actually had to ask them to take the day off on Labor Day.